The kanji 然: meaning, readings and stroke order
然
- Meaning
- natural, so
- On reading
- ゼン zen、ネン nen
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 火 fire
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tự nhiên, như vậy (nhiên)
- Japanese
- そのまま。そう いう ようす。
- Korean
- 그러하다, 자연 (연)
- Chinese
- 自然、这样
Readings, words and example sentences
ゼン zen · on reading
自然
nature
山の 自然を 大切に します。
We take good care of nature in the mountains.
ネン nen · on reading
天然
natural (not made by people)
天然の 石で 作りました。
It is made of natural stone.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.